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Source: www.misual.com, March 5th, 2012 1:00 am by Sandman, Original Post Written by Dr. Laltanpuii, Post at Rini Tochhawng's Blog (http://tochhawngmizogurl.blogspot.in/2009/03/zawlkhawpui-senmei-chan-ni-kha.html).
The Day Aizawl City Went Up in Flames
(In commemoration of the March 5, 1966 bombing of Aizawl and other villages in Mizoram)
'That little thing they say has bombed Aizawl, and me I'm lost and so helpless'.
I believe it was February 26, 1966 while sitting in the Class VII room of Govt. High School when my dearest friend Kimteii said to me, "My Dear, my Dad said that the MNF Volunteers are apparently attempting to seize the Aizawl Assam Rifles and U Tlana has also gone with some others towards the Chite river" that my young heart of fourteen years was filled with joy, excitement and apprehension. All the more so because the autumn of the previous year, I had bunked my classes at Saitual ME School to help out at the feast on the setting up of an MNF Volunteer Battalion.
Then from the night of February 28, 1966, Aizawl began to be filled with the sounds of gunfire and bomb blasts. Everyone stayed put in their houses, looking for a haven of safety and the hazardous and difficult process of relocation had already begun. There was no longer any thought of School so along with my friends Kimi and Vani, we set out to help the volunteers in any way we could. We went over to our assigned task of cooking for them at Govt. Boys M.E. School and found grown men, young men and women there. While we busied ourselves with our task, there were some who were happily singing with their guitars and dancing in joy. Words cannot adequately express the emotions of joy and anxiety mixed in our hearts during those precarious times. The time had apparently come for us, like it had for others in the outside world to find and identify ourselves with a political movement.
While we young people were busy with our assigned task, there was another time evolving, a more hazardous and perilous one. A powerful Fighter (F 104 Phantom Z) had reached the Aizawl skies and was hovering above us. After a few turns above, they began pelting those places they believed housed volunteers with bombs and other ammunition, with absolutely no restraint. Everyone ran amok in fear, looking for a place where they might be safe- I also found myself in a few life-threatening situations! As they were fleeing, my uncle/grandfather called for me to follow but I said, " You run on to safety, I will follow with my friends at the end, but do find a way of letting me know where you go."
There were hordes of people fleeing Aizawl from then on. We somehow found ourselves going towards Dawrpui from Tuikual side to find my family had already left. They had left a letter saying, "Tante, We are going down to Chite and will go on to Saitual from Zokhawsang and Seling. Follow us as quickly as you can." I then knew how I was to follow them. My friend Kimteii's family had also left but they had gone down south to their families there. All this while Aizawl was already groaning in fear and trepidation, with her people abandoning her for safety. It was then that it happened, this Zawlkhawpui we loved was burning, there was nothing to see but flames all around. My only lot was to cry 'That little thing they say has bombed Aizawl, and me I'm lost and so helpless'.
Burning Flames! Dead Bodies! Kimteii Passed Away!
With My Dear-i (Kimteii), my dearest friend in this whole world, I got ready to flee Aizawl with the rest to find us a sanctuary from this madness. On the road towards Bazar, we did see a few corpses on the way and all this time, the Fighter was hailing down fire at everyone and everything on land. At Tuithiang, we saw the dead bodies of cows and pigs and decided that we would avoid the Dawrpui road and walk on towards the west of Aizawl because the fighter frequented the eastern parts of town more than the others. When we saw the corpses of two teenaged girls lying together on the steps between two houses, we were filled with pity and touched to our cores. But knowing that this could be our fate too in another minute, I covered the bodies with one of my 'puan's (a type of sarong, the traditional wear of a Mizo woman) and we moved on.
As we were passing over the western road, we saw the body of a young man lying atop a small mound. Tired, we hurriedly lay down on a lowland. Then Kimteii, in an attempt to cover the body of that young man with her puan crawled towards the mound. There was a sudden machine gun fire from the A.R. compound and Kimteii cried out just as she covered the dead man's body. When I turned at the sound of her cry, I saw the gun had caught her right below her breast, the bullet had come out through the back. Blood was coming out in splashes. She was tossing and turning on the ground. With all her strength she was shouting, "Tante, my dear, I'm going to die, I'm going to die. Run quickly, they'll shoot you too…" I held her in my arms and cried, "O, my dear, Kimte, Kimte, how can I go on without you…? Never fear, I will die here with you…" And with her dying breath, "Tante, Tante, I'm now going to give my life for our land.
Mother..Mother…Father…Father…the pain.." I prayed so that she might feel comforted, and that I might die there with her. In between her cries of agony, "Tante, take my notebook too and please continue to study…fulfill the dream we both had of becoming lady doctors" and soon after that "Mother…Mother…My King, take me into your arms… Dear God..I'm coming to you.." My Dear-i's face began to change. She moved in fits, she stretched in pain, she groaned, and then she was no more. She was no longer there to speak to me. "My Dear, Kimte, open your eyes, speak to me" I repeated myself over and over again but she did not answer again nor did she move.
O my dear, Kimte, Kimte,
You have now given your life for our land and our people;
My friend, my friend, my love, my greatest love!
Your parting words..my misery..but Kimte,
When will my soul come to be with you..?
O Kimte, goodbye…goodbye…"
were the only words I could cry out. But even then, I was strangely comforted. In the autumn of 1965, Pu Lalchungnunga had held a Salvation Camping at Saitual and we both had offered ourselves up to God in prayer then. That is why Kimteii had cried out to her Saviour with her dying breath.! The God of Grace would surely have embraced her and welcomed her into his loving arms. Also, Kimteii had fought for our land and our people. A person with so much love, she had seen an unattended corpse and had gone ahead to cover it with her soft puan, knowing it was dangerous to move out. She was not afraid to die in fulfilling our traditional show of love and concern! As long as the Mizo people live, we shall remember Kimteii. Kimteii has died, but she continues to live.
Then I covered her body with my best puan, the Ngotekherh and laid her beside the body of the young man she had covered. A young man came by just then and shouted to me, "Why are you still here? Run quickly". Then over the body of my best friend, the friend I'd been with since I was a kid, the one I always studied with and one I would never forget, over Kimteii's body I prayed. Having ruled by the Creator of heaven and earth that we must part, I had to bid her farewell even against my will.
O my dearKimte, from whom I never wished to part,
But fate has ruled that I live, aimless in my loss!
I cannot accept, I do not know how to
Till when we find complete and everlasting rest
…so crying I picked up her notebook and all her clothes in a bundle and ran off in a hurry with the young man towards the west.
After a while we teamed up with a family that was fleeing and somehow managed to cross Aizawl from the south. I had become so tired and hungry that I often stumbled and fell on the way. The young man would pick me up and hold my hand and he gave me all the remains of his bread. He then went on to Muallungthu while I stayed the night at Zokhawsang where my family had been. Then with some others, I moved up to join them at Saitual. At that time, Aizawl was no longer a city- it was just a big fire. With flames and smoke, with corpses on the streets, it had become a battleground like other places in the world.
From my trials to victory
My father (Thangvula, Arunachal Sub-Inspector for Education) came over from Manipur to Saitual to take me and we left for Manipur after two weeks at Saitual. My trials may have been a pittance compared to what others went through, but for me, it created a sense of victory in my heart. That also became the core of my life's purpose. I went through life in health by the grace of God, doing well in my studies but my beloved Kimteii was no longer with me. I felt alone and forlorn many times. But she had gone on to the Saviour she had accepted, to a place where she did not have to study nor toil in hard work. I shall also join her and rest with her some day soon. The dream I had shared with Kimteii since we started High School, the dream she left me with in her dying moments became ever more precious! My father's parting words as I was to leave for Bombay Medical College were so beautiful to me- "Tante, go in good health. You are to study to become a Doctor just as your friend Kimteii wanted you so remember that you are a Mizo wherever you go and remember to trust yourself in the Lord always."
Looking back on the times that have gone by
How nostalgic I feel as I look back on my life! Where are the friends with whom I had shared such a happy month (February 1966) in the Class VII room at Government High School, without any fear that they would end so soon? O how I wish I could have just one day of the happy times I spent with my Kimteii at Aizawl! I can never forget Kimteii-her body given in sacrifice, the blood she shed, her last words spoken. How my tears fell the day I heard that I had passed my M.B.B.S. from Bombay Medical College, remembering the dream I had shared with Kimteii! I felt she came to me in spirit repeatedly saying, "Tante, how happy I am for you! I have now rested, Tante, it is up to you to use your skills for our land, for our people."
After covering her body with my Ngotekherh and kissing her cheeks as I left her, Kimteii's physical body has forever been lost to me! And how can I forget the young man who held me as I stumbled tired and hungry, the one who gave me his bread to eat, what is his name? Where might he be? And what about the family I detoured Aizawl with? And how precious for me the old lady in whose house I stumbled in at Zokhawsang, the one who cleaned me up of the clothes covered in Kimteii' blood! And I remember the kindness of those I went with till Saitual and how they cared for me. And priceless is my father who came all the way from Manipur to take me to safety. Had he not come, I would have been caught in the terrible madness at Aizawl and where then would I have been? On the day I was filled with such memories
"When I look back on the times gone by
how I miss the friends who've gone
comfort me now
o land where there are no goodbyes"
"The years of our youth, the good times all gone
Are you only to be the past?
As I collect the memories of those times
How melancholic and wistful you make me feel."
- Blog source: Tochh_shrugged
(This is a Mizo article published in 1980 in the 'MZP Chanchinbu'. The then Editor of the magazine, Dr. J.V.Hluna has included the piece in his book which is named after the title of this article "Zawlkhawpuiin senmei a chan ni kha". No further information is known of the writer and the author of the book expresses his deep desire to know who the writer, and who her 'My Dear Kimteii' are. This is an almost literal translation of a piece that brought tears to my eyes the first time I read it.)


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Damba Koroma, a survivor of the 1991 civil war in Sierra Leone
For eleven years, the West African country of Sierra Leone was torn apart by civil war. The war began in 1991, when a rebel group (called the Revolutionary United Front) launched a campaign to control the country's rich diamond fields. The rebels attacked civilians in villages, using machetes and axes to sever their arms, legs, lips and ears. Damba Koroma was only five when rebels cut off her left arm. As a young girl she was brought to the United States, where she has just completed high school.
On the right arm and hand – perfect nails. On the other – only a memory of what once was there. But Damba Koroma doesn't dwell on the past. Cooking is one of her passions. Days before her high school graduation, she is enjoying making a salad in her cooking class. She uses special prosthetic tools.
"I find it really cool how you can make something really good and tasty that people will love and I love to eat," she said.
Teacher Craig Scheuerman helped her get the cooking tools, which were donated by a non-profit foundation. He says Koroma is one of the best students he's ever had.
"I thought she had a disability, and clearly she did not. She's been phenomenal at working in the kitchen," he stated. "She can work as fast as someone with two hands."
Her classmates agree, saying she is very helpful. Daryl Hale says he is impressed by her as she's just a good person all around. Josoph Jackson adds, she is willing to help and shares her knowledge with others.
Growing up during Sierra Leone's civil war, Koroma recalls the day in 1997 when rebels attacked her village, demanding money from her mother who said she didn't have any. The leader of the group said Koroma would be used an example of what would happen if people didn't give them what they wanted.
"They chopped my left arm off and then they did the same to my mother. And then, after that they did the same to several other villagers who were also there on that day," Koroma explained.
Damba says it took three days for her family to walk through the chaos to get to a hospital. After that, she spent several years traveling from one refugee camp to another, seeking help from people in nearby cities.
"My mom and I, during the day, we would go inside the city to beg for money or for food," she recalled.
While mother and daughter were in a camp for amputees, Koroma was given an opportunity in 2000 to come to the United States to be fitted for a prosthetic arm. She was afraid to go back to Sierra Leone.
When her story became known, Sahr Pombor and his wife, Josephine, stepped forward to become her guardians in Alexandria, Virginia.
"I couldn't image how much pain she suffered. It just tore me apart," he said.
The newlywed Sierra Leonean couple, who had come to the U.S. to flee conflict in their country, suddenly found themselves with their first child. They would later have three daughters of their own. Josephine Pombor says her sister gave her advice about how to help Koroma adjust.
"Just grab the hand and kiss it, just tell her you love her and I did that a lot," Pombor recalled. "And as she grew older I began to notice that she was more confident in herself."
Damba says she is not bitter about the loss of her hand.
"Even though I have one hand, even though I have pretty rough background, I'm not going to let it stop me from doing what I what to do," she said.
Last April, Koroma went back to Sierra Leone for the first time since leaving for the United States. She met with other amputees and spoke to students about never giving up. She also reunited with her mother and other family members.
"I felt at home. I felt like I had been with them forever, even though I hadn't seen them in almost 11 years," she noted.
Koroma is going to college in a few months and hopes to study international development. Sierra Leone, she says, is still rebuilding from war. Her goal is to help build a hospital for women and children in the country.
"I'm really passionate about helping other people because it's a way of giving back because a lot of people have helped me along the way," she said.

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The cost of attending an AACK! podcast will be $4.44, a token fee (partly) to ensure that those who join the group are sufficiently committed. However, as I already said, payment is not enough to guarantee acceptance - so if you are interested, please email me first, via my blogger profile.
The first in the series will be this Sunday, the 8th of January, at 10 am PST, 12 pm CT, 1 pm ET, and 6pm GMT.
The title of the first "AACK!" podcast:
"Is There Life Before Death?"
Subjects which I may be discussing include:
The two forms of ignorance: not knowing, and believing we know when we don't. The second kind is the one to watch for.
The two-pronged attack on delusion/the matrix program: saying no to the old, and yes to the new.
Finding one's true purpose as the means - as well as the end - to dropping the ego or false self.
The place of observation as the launch pad for action. Action and engagement as the means to access wisdom. Waiting and precipitating, the yin and yang flow of consciousness, akin to the in and out breath, and the beating of the heart.
The human "form" - how losing it must coincide with surrender to, and alignment with, a higher intelligence. How the social contract of being human is what keeps us sane and morally responsible: like a chrysalis for a pupa, it serves a necessary purpose. How recognizing the lie of the false identity can lead to pathology or suicidal despair without a corresponding awareness of something beyond ourselves running the show.
Failure and success: placing the bar at the appropriate level to you, in order to stay engaged in the battle of life and avoid both lethargy and ego inflation.
Living every day as the last - is it doable, if so, how?
Overcoming the futility of ego-driven, death-invalidating existence by finding and aligning with Cosmic Purpose (aka "the mission").
These and many more Arcana Arcadia in the mesmerizing tones of Mr. Kephas, all for the measly price of $4.44!
To suggest a topic for discussion on future podcasts, just comment at this post or email me.
Glossary of Terms:
ar·ca·num (är-knm)
n. pl. ar·ca·na (-n) or ar·ca·nums
1. A deep secret; a mystery.
2. often arcana Specialized knowledge or detail that is mysterious to the average person: "knows the arcana of police procedure and the intricacies of litigation" (George F. Will).
3. A secret essence or remedy; an elixir.
Ar·ca·di·a 2 also ar·ca·di·a (är-kd-)
A region offering rural simplicity and contentment.
Arcadia (Greek: Ἀρκαδία) refers to a vision of pastoralism and harmony with nature. Arcadia is associated with bountiful natural splendor, harmony, and is often inhabited by shepherds. The concept also figures in Renaissance mythology. Commonly thought of as being in line with Utopian ideals, Arcadia differs from that tradition in that it is more often specifically regarded as unattainable. Furthermore, it is seen as a lost, Edenic form of life, contrasting to the progressive nature of Utopian desires.
The inhabitants were often regarded as having continued to live after the manner of the Golden Age, without the pride and avarice that corrupted other regions.[1] It is also sometimes referred to in English poetry as Arcady. The inhabitants of this region bear an obvious connection to the figure of the Noble savage, both being regarded as living close to nature, uncorrupted by civilization, and virtuous.
According to Greek mythology, Arcadia of Peloponnesus was the domain of Pan, a virgin wilderness home to the god of the forest and his court of dryads, nymphs and other spirits of nature. It was one version of paradise, though only in the sense of being the abode of supernatural entities, not an afterlife for deceased mortals.
catabolism, katabolism [kəˈtæbəˌlɪzəm]
1. a metabolic process in which complex molecules are broken down into simple ones with the release of energy; destructive metabolism
2. the metabolic process in which energy is liberated for use in work.
"Real thinking is invariably destructive and pain-causing." Jed McKenna.


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EDITORIAL: For gay Americans, State of the Union depends on the state
"Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal, as well."
Those were President Barack Obama's historic words at his Inaugural Address Jan. 21.
The president addresses the nation again Tuesday night for the State of the Union, when big moral principles like that are supposed to turn into a legislative agenda.
Up until now, President Obama's stance on gay marriage was "... that this is an issue that is going to be worked out at the local level, because historically, this has not been a federal issue ..."
"What you're seeing is, I think, states working through this issue in fits and starts, all across the country," he said last May in an interview with ABC. "Different communities are arriving at different conclusions, at different times. And I think that's a healthy process and a healthy debate."
Connecticut's time came ahead of much of the country, but not soon enough.
Across the border in Rhode Island, lawmakers are finally coming around to thinking it might be time.
If you're gay and live in Florida, Missouri, Georgia, Kentucky, Alabama and 25 other states, though, that "healthy process" and "healthy debate" mean you cannot marry the person you love.
The federal Defense of Marriage Act still prevents states from granting full rights. Ask any Connecticut same-sex couple attempting to file their federal taxes right now.
Of course, removing that kind of affront to human rights from federal law is a starting point.
But if President Obama believes words like "created equal" and "treated like anyone else," the agenda has to go beyond "leaving it up to the states."


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Concealed Gun Classes Skyrocket In Kentucky< < Back to
State officials say the number of firearm training certificates issued to residents who wish to carry a concealed gun jumped to its highest number in a decade in the month of January.
The issued certificates spiked from 4,355 in December to 12,685 in January.
The Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice training says the number declined to 8,677 in February, but it was still at least double that of any month last year, aside from December. The training is required to receive a concealed carry license, which allows Kentuckians to carry a weapon out of sight under their clothing in public.
Kenneth Betts, a Louisville police officer who conducts courses, says gun ranges in Kentucky are jammed with students and even bullets are in short supply.


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A good friend of mine, Shelia Berry, is curating an exhibit of artwork created by artists with Asperger's Syndrome. It is often speculated that a disproportionately large percentage of the science fiction and fantasy community has AS. A big part of the exhibit's mission, besides promoting the artists, is to educate others about Asperger's so, pass the word on!
Andy Warhol, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein are all thought to have had Asperger's Syndrome (AS). Affected individuals usually have normal to superior intelligence, but sustained social impairments making traditional employment difficult. AS is an innate neurological condition that promotes hyperfocus on intense interests. With support—creativity and innovation can flourish. Those with AS may make remarkable works of art and major contributions to our world.
We are looking for works by artists over 18 years old, who have been diagnosed with AS. Two dimensional art and small sculpture accepted. Works available for sale. No commission charged.
Submission deadline: June 15, 2007
There is no entry fee.
Please submit by email to Kathy Clark at firstname.lastname@example.com, 617-491-0280. Include:
- Name, address, phone number, e-mail
- List with: titles/mediums/dimensions/year completed
- A brief statement about your work
Art will be exhibited in three locations:
- John Hancock Center, Boston, MA on September 28, 2007 during the Asperger's Association Annual Conference
- Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, January 2008
- Honan-Allston branch of the Boston Public Library, Allston, MA, May 2008.
To learn more about Asperger's Syndrome, please visit www.aane.org


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Fujita to spend life in prison for killing ex-girlfriend
Nathaniel Fujita convicted of first-degree murder in Lauren Astley's death
A Wayland man who strangled his former girlfriend in his parent's garage and dumped her body in a marsh will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury rejected his claim that the crime happened during a psychotic episode.
Nathaniel Fujita, 20, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the death of recent Wayland High School graduate 18-year-old Lauren Astley, who was killed in July 2011. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Info: Lauren Dunne Astley Memorial Fund
Fujita, who was also charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and one count of assault and battery, showed little emotion as the verdicts were read.
Images: History of insanity defense in Mass.
Malcom Astley, Lauren's father, hugged Fujita's parents as they broke down after learning their son's fate. The families have remained close since the killing nearly two years ago.
During victim impact statements, Astley's mother, Mary Dunne, spoke about missing her only child's voice.
"Never again will I be called mom, or mommy, or mother. Lauren was my only child, and she brought instant joy into my life," Dunne said. "As a divorced woman with no children, I face dying alone. I will never have the pleasure of the milestones of college graduation, special birthdays or grandchildren."
Astley's father spoke about violence against women and gave suggestions for what Fujita could teach others.
"Three women a day, on average, are murdered by a loving partner, supposedly, in loving relationships," Malcom Astley said. "There is much (Fujita) could do for all of us. He could slowly acknowledge openly what he did. He could apologize openly and repeatedly. He could dig deeply into understanding himself and what led to this violence and loss."
Fujita did not address the court, nor did he offer any remorse for the crime.
"It is not the appropriate forum for an apology. If there is going to be anything like that, it is a private discussion. This is not something you would play out for cameras and everyone else," defense lawyer William Sullivan said.
The jury of eight men and four women heard nearly three weeks of testimony from more than 30 witnesses. Deliberations began Wednesday morning, one day after prosecutor Lisa McGovern said in her closing arguments that Fujita knew exactly what he was doing when he killed Astley.
"He killed her with deliberate premeditation. Knowing no one was home to interfere, he chooses to have Lauren Astley come to his home and chooses the isolation -- the garage," McGovern said.
McGovern called Fujita "goal driven," and cited dozens of examples that Fujita knew what he was doing the night he strangled Astley with a bungee cord, slashed her throat and dumped her body.
"Say what you will about tooth fairies, or fairy godmothers. There is no psychosis fairy who magically sprinkles a temporary dose of psychoses on this defendant," said McGovern. "It goes against everything we know scientifically about psychosis. It's driving a car. It's putting a body in a car. It's disposing of that body. It's driving home."
Sullivan said during his closing argument that there was ample evidence to support the fact that the death was caused by Fujita's mental illness.
"The commonwealth says this is a well-thought-out case. That is absurd, absolutely absurd," he said. "There is no planning. The place where this killing occurred is in this garage, with one of the doors open. This is the last place that if somebody was planning this would occur. This was a brief, immediate psychotic episode. There was no planning."
Sullivan told the jury that finding Fujita was not criminally responsible was the "difficult verdict," but it was the right one.
"You swore an oath that you would do your duty as a jury, that you would not let your emotions to get the better of you," Sullivan said.
A psychiatrist who testified for the prosecution that rage, not psychosis, drove Fujita to kill Astley, was questioned by the defense about Fujitia's alleged depressive state.
"There were many instances of rage prior to this incident," Dr. Alison Fife said.
Fife testified that she evaluated Fujita and concluded he had "the substantial capacity to conform his behavior."
"My opinion is that Nathaniel Fujita had the ability to appreciate wrongfulness," Fife said.
Fife said at the time of the crime, she believed "the primary motivator was rage."
That testimony refuted what a psychiatrist for the defense told the court last week: That Fujita had a psychotic episode that made him unable to control his actions.
Dr. Wade Cooper Myers testified that Fujita had a "major depressive episode leading up to murder, followed by brief psychotic episode and cognitive disorder from football injuries."


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Turkeyfoot Family Pet Center in Akon, OH is seeking a full-time veterinarian to join our family-oriented team. We are a busy, multi-doctor, full-service hospital that provides high-quality veterinary care for not only dogs and cats, but also small mammals and birds. Our doctors enjoy working in a large, modern facility equipped for most routine surgeries and preventive medicine needs. The Feline Friendly certified staff includes two RVTs, a traveling board-certified surgeon, and access to two state-of-the-art referral practices. Get to know us better here!
New grads are encouraged to apply. This is the perfect opportunity for a new graduate to be successful under the mentorship and guidance of our collaborative team of doctors with a wide range of experience and areas of interest. We work very closely with the Ohio Italian Greyhound Rescue Group and the Humane Society of Summit County.
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This package contains the files needed for installing the Graphics driver. If it has been installed, updating (overwrite-installing) may fix problems, add new functions, or expand existing ones. Even though other OSes might be compatible as well, we do not recommend applying this release on platforms other than the ones specified.
To install this package please do the following:
- Make sure that all system requirements are met.
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It can improve the overall graphics experience and performance in either games or various engineering software applications, include support for newly developed technologies, add compatibility with newer GPU chipsets, or resolve different problems that might have been encountered.
When it comes to applying this release, the installation steps should be a breeze, as each manufacturer tries to make them as easy as possible so that each user can update the GPU on their own and with minimum risks (however, check to see if this download supports your graphics chipset).
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Google tops $800. It's the new Apple ... for nowFebruary 19, 2013: 1:17 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
Remember when Apple could do no wrong? Now Wall Street iHates Apple ... and the tech infallibility torch has been firmly passed to Google.
Shares of Google (GOOG) topped $800 for the first time Tuesday. The stock is now up more than 13% so far this year. Google has gained nearly 45% since hitting a 52-week low last June.
Meanwhile, Apple (AAPL) is down more than 13% so far in 2013 -- making it the third worst performing stock in the S&P 500. And since Apple hit its own all-time high last September, its shares have plunged 35%.
But how long can this last? Google does have the momentum right now. But as we've witnessed with Apple, it may not take much for sentiment to shift.
I think Google is a fantastic company. But a couple of things worry me about the stock.
Following Apple is innovation? The recent reports that Google may follow the lead of Apple and open Google retail stores seems like a potential flop. Hardware isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think of things that Google does great ... even after the recent acquisition of Motorola.
What would Google stores sell? Just Google-branded products? (Check out that driverless car and Google Glass! Or even better yet, test "drive" the driverless car while wearing those weird Google glasses) Or could Google stores also be a place where you can buy phones and tablets running on Google's Android operating system that are made by Samsung, HTC and others?
Related: Google outspent Apple on lobbying in 2012
Either way, opening stores could be a costly mistake for a company that not too long ago preferred to let word of mouth do all the talking for its brand. (Now it's hard to watch TV without seeing an ad for Chrome.)
If Google now feels the need to spend this aggressively on marketing, that could be a sign that it's not as innovative as everyone thinks. Some of Google's other me-too initiatives have not panned out that well either. Google+ (or as I like to call it, Diet Facebook) anyone?
Show me the money! Another potential issue? Google, much like Apple, has gobs of cash and has not yet shown a willingness to part with that much of it. Google ended the year with $48.1 billion in cash.
Yes, Google has been more aggressive with acquisitions. But Google clearly has a lot left over that it could give back to shareholders. What about more stock buybacks? Or a dividend? Google is the only tech giant with an 11-figure sum of cash that's not yet paying a dividend.
For now, investors may be tolerant of Google's miserly ways. But that won't last forever. Just ask Apple. Or Microsoft (MSFT). Or Cisco (CSCO). Or Oracle (ORCL). At some point, Google is going to have to prove to Wall Street that there is a legitimate need for that much cash.
Maturation is tech's worst enemy. Perhaps the most amazing thing about Apple's stock run of the past few years is that the company did it as a decades-old firm. But Apple, to its credit, reinvented itself. It went from an also-ran in PCs to a leader in categories it is largely responsible for creating.
Now that investors are worried about Apple losing its edge and not having anything new up its sleeve, the company's stock is falling. It's being viewed as a company that has peaked. That could happen to Google unless it shows Wall Street that there is more to its business model than advertising.
Related: Apple searches for its next billion-dollar product
For all the talk of Google's futuristic product plans, the addition of a hardware business through its Motorola acquisition and the success of Android, the company is still almost entirely dependent on the whims of marketers: 87% of its revenue came from advertising in 2012. In 2011, Google generated 96% of its revenue from ads.
So yes, there has been progress in lessening Google's dependence on a fickle and highly cyclical market. But not enough to escape this simple fact. Google's growth -- while still strong -- is slowing. Analysts are predicting that earnings per share will increase by an average of 14% a year for the next five years. That's impressive ... but it's a far cry from the 21% a year on average that Google put up over the past five years. And that brings me to my last point.
Google's stock is not cheap anymore. Does Google really deserve a valuation of nearly 18 times 2013 earnings estimates considering that its growth is starting to slow to the mid-teens? Look at the valuations for other mature tech companies. Apple and Microsoft now trade at just 10 times fiscal 2013 earnings estimates. IBM (IBM) is valued at 12 times 2013 earnings projections.
You can't argue that Google deserves a big premium over other old tech companies just because it's in a more dynamic sector either. Google's projected growth rate is not that much higher than Yahoo's (YHOO), and it is lower than AOL's (AOL) and Facebook's (FB).
Related: Hedge funds dumped Apple in the fourth quarter
Once again, Google is a phenomenal company. If I were Google CEO Larry Page, I'd be as "super-excited" about the future too. (And if I were chairman Eric Schmidt, I might be second-guessing that decision to sell a big portion of stock only to see shares rise further.)
But no stock can go up forever without some hiccups. And that's especially the case in tech. Apple is proof positive that investors can quickly fall out of love with a stock as fast as they became infatuated with it.


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Baptism pokes into the news now and then, especially with recent irregularities on words and form. Let's read how RCIA instructs it be done:
226. The celebrant baptizes each candidate either by immersion, option A, or by the pouring of water, option B. Each baptism may be followed by a short acclamation (see Appendix II, RCIA no. 595), sung or said by the people.
[If there are a great number to be baptized, they may be baptized in groups and baptized by assisting priests or deacons. In baptizing, either by immersion, option A, or by the pouring of water, option B, these ministers say the sacramental formulary for each candidate. During the baptisms, singing by the people is desirable or readings from Scripture or simply silent prayer.]
A. If baptism if by immersion, of the whole body or of the head only, decency and decorum should be preserved. Either or both godparents touch the candidate. The celebrant, immersing the candidate's whole body or head three times, baptizes the candidate in the name of the Trinity.
N., I baptize you in the name of the Father
He immerses the candidate the first time.
and of the Son
He immerses the candidate the second time.
and of the Holy Spirit.
He immerses the candidate the third time.
B. If baptism if by pouring of water, either or both godparents place the right hand on the shoulder of the candidate, and the celebrant, taking baptismal water and pouring it three times on the candidate's bowed head, baptizes the candidate in the name of the Trinity.
N., I baptize you in the name of the Father
He pours water the first time.
and of the Son
He pours water the second time.
and of the Holy Spirit.
He pours water the third time.
The rite calls for music. I think the baptismal acclamation needs some attention. It should be singable, memorable, and sturdy. There's something to be said for using the same acclamation for infant baptisms, either at Mass or at liturgies outside of the Eucharist. As a pastoral liturgist, that says to me the acclamation should sing well without accompaniment. At the Vigil, obviously, one would presume instruments offering a festive arrangement not unlike what would be provided for the alleluia before the Gospel or the Eucharistic acclamations.
The provision for large numbers of baptisms is interesting. Did you notice the explicit priority for music? First, songs. Second, Scripture readings. Third, silent prayer.
Touching and body contact: note the importance given to the physical contact of the godparent(s). Note also the prescription for a threefold soaking; not one immersion with the threefold formula. There's not any reason why a threefold soaking shouldn't take place.
Notice also in option B that pouring on a forehead is not an option given in the rite. The choreography the Church gives is that the candidate bows her or his head–not tilts–and that water is poured over the head, not the upper face.
See anything else in the rite you may have missed? I have to say I never noted the preference for Scripture readings above silent prayer.


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I haven't blogged in a while, but have certainly been busy. I did take off a week for vacation and had a nice time with friends and family and visited Cedar Point in Ohio to ride some roller coasters.
My current R&D project continues- I'm getting a new Linux operating system upgrade ready for our 550 thin clients. There were a few features we wanted to add, and we also wanted to be able to support the new 5735 thin client that replaced our model. I took the HP released Debian Etch flash build, and have been adding in our customizations. Both old and new thin clients are running the same build, and have identical features. I have Xinerama working for 2 or 3 monitors in both NX and XDMCP. 1 monitor continues to support Compiz/3D desktops.
A few ideas that I had for the new 5735 model will have to wait for the next upgrade. The ATI X1200 on board cards are not supported in Etch, and seems to need the radeon-hd package. The 5735s ship with both PCI and a PCIE/x1 expansion slots. So we bought an ATI 2250/x1 for testing. This card too requires radeon-hd. So some back burner ideas for the future. :)
The latest news is that HP released some thin client laptops and we got a loaner for testing. I had to install Debian Squeeze/SID in order to light up all of the hardware including an Intel/4500 video card. I then wrote all of the custom scripts and code to support this hardware as well. All 3 thin clients now work identically from a common code base and it's just awesome. We are kicking around the idea of allowing some employees to use the laptop footprint instead of the desk model, which would allow them to carry it around the building and use it anywhere. I also have experimentally installed local copies of OpenOffice and Acrobat Reader to allow a (very) minimal amount of off-network work. If someone needs to do a presentation off-network, it will work fine. The details are still being kicked around, but it's looking promising. The thin client specs. With a price tag just over $500, they are pretty attractive.
All 3 devices boot to the same system chooser menu (below). The laptop is especially fast and gets here in about 10 seconds after pressing the power button.
I have scripts to automatically figure out if you are on the hard wired network in which case XCMCP login is started. I haven't gotten 3D working on this Intel driver yet, but that's my goal. If they are not plugged into the city network, or on the wireless card it automatically starts NX and they can get the same desktop. I have been walking around the City Hall building and it's all working really well.


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An undated photo provided by the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office shows a procedure room at the Women's Medical Society in Philadelphia.
An unlicensed medical school graduate delivered graphic testimony Thursday about the chaos at a Philadelphia clinic where he helped perform late-term abortions.
Stephen Massof described how he snipped the spinal cords of babies, calling it, "literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body." He testified that at times, when women were given medicine to speed up their deliveries, "it would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place."
Massof, of Pittsburgh, is in prison after pleading guilty to third-degree murder in the deaths of two newborns.
He is now testifying against his former boss, abortion provider Kermit Gosnell.
The 72-year-old Gosnell is charged with killing a woman patient and seven babies.
For more, visit NBCPhiladelphia.com
Massof testified that his medical degree came from Granada in the West Indies and that he never completed a medical residency before he began working for Gosnell in the summer of 2003. He initially shadowed Gosnell and within two months, Massof said he was performing gynecological exams on his own.
By law in Pennsylvania, after a woman's initial visit with an abortion provider, she must wait at least 24 hours and receive counseling before having the procedure. It is also illegal for doctors to perform abortions after a pregnancy has reached 24 weeks, unless the mother's life is at risk.
Massof testified that he was involved in late-term abortion procedures at the clinic. He said the most extreme case that he witnessed was an abortion at 26 weeks.
Massof performed ultrasounds and admitted that the clinic's ultrasound machine was manipulated to make fetuses appear smaller and therefore younger.
Massof says Gosnell was often at his Delaware clinic while he oversaw women going through labor and even delivery. He says some patients were highly sedated or even unconscious, but were not monitored by any medical equipment.


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It is not just girls these days who are consumed by an unattainable body image.
Take David Abusheikh. At age 15, he started lifting weights for two hours a day, six days a week. Now that he is a senior at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn, he has been adding protein bars and shakes to his diet to put on muscle without gaining fat.
"I didn't used to be into supplements," said Mr. Abusheikh, 18, who plans on a career in engineering, "but I wanted something that would help me get bigger a little faster."
Pediatricians are starting to sound alarm bells about boys who take unhealthy measures to try to achieve Charles Atlas bodies that only genetics can truly confer. Whether it is long hours in the gym, allowances blown on expensive supplements or even risky experiments with illegal steroids, the price American boys are willing to pay for the perfect body appears to be on the rise.
In a study to be published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, more than 40 percent of boys in middle school and high school said they regularly exercised with the goal of increasing muscle mass. Thirty-eight percent said they used protein supplements, and nearly 6 percent said they had experimented with steroids.
Over all, 90 percent of the 1,307 boys in the survey — who lived in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, but typify what doctors say is a national phenomenon — said they exercised at least occasionally to add muscle.
"There has been a striking change in attitudes toward male body image in the last 30 years," said Dr. Harrison Pope, a psychiatry professor at Harvard who studies bodybuilding culture and was not involved in the study. The portrayal of men as fat-free and chiseled "is dramatically more prevalent in society than it was a generation ago," he said.
While college-age men have long been interested in bodybuilding, pediatricians say they have been surprised to find that now even middle school boys are so absorbed with building muscles. And their youth adds an element of risk.
Just as girls who count every calorie in an effort to be thin may do themselves more harm than good, boys who chase an illusory image of manhood may end up stunting their development, doctors say, particularly when they turn to supplements — or, worse, steroids — to supercharge their results.
"The problem with supplements is they're not regulated like drugs, so it's very hard to know what's in them," said Dr. Shalender Bhasin, a professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and chief of endocrinology, diabetes and nutrition at Boston Medical Center. Some contain anabolic steroids, and even high-quality protein supplements might be dangerous in large amounts, or if taken to replace meals, he said. "These things just haven't been studied very well," he said.
Anabolic steroids pose a special danger to developing bodies, Dr. Bhasin said. Steroids "stop testosterone production in men," he said, leading to terrible withdrawal problems when still-growing boys try to stop taking them. Still, the constant association of steroids with elite athletes like Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds perpetuates the notion that they can be managed successfully.
Online, in bodybuilding forums for teenagers, boys barely out of puberty share weight-lifting regimens and body fat percentages, and judge one another's progress. On Tumblr and Facebook, teenagers post images of ripped athletes under the heading "fitspo" or "fitspiraton," which are short for "fitness inspiration." The tags are spinoffs of "thinspo" and "thinspiration" pictures and videos, which have been banned from many sites for promoting anorexia.
"Lifted b4 school today felt good but was weak as hell," wrote one boy who said he was 15 and from Tallahassee, Fla., on a message board on Bodybuilding.com in September, saying he bench-pressed 245 pounds. "Barely got it."
Many of these boys probably see themselves in Mike Sorrentino, "The Situation" from the "Jersey Shore" series on MTV, or the Adam Sackler character, on the HBO series "Girls," who rarely wears a shirt or takes a break from his crunches.
Mr. Abusheikh, for instance, has a Facebook page full of photos of himself shirtless or showing off his six-pack abs. At his high school, participation in the annual bodybuilding competition hit an all-time high of 30 students this year.
"They ask us about everything," said Peter Rivera, a physical education teacher at Fort Hamilton High School who helps oversee the competition. "How do I lose weight? How do I gain muscle? How many times a week should I work out?" Some boys want to be stronger for sports, Mr. Rivera said, but others "want to change their body type."
Compared with a sedentary lifestyle of video games and TV, an obsession with working out may not quite qualify as a health hazard. And instructors like Mr. Rivera say most boys are eager for advice on the healthiest, drug-free ways to get in shape.
With so little known about supplements, it can be difficult, particularly for teenagers, to make wise decisions.
Alonso Huizar, 16, of Tucson, could not say for sure which creatine supplements he takes. "I bounce around," he said. "I get, like, some type of chocolate flavor, depending on the price."
Alonso started lifting weights at 15 because he wanted to get bigger for soccer, "but I was also just trying to gain weight in general," he said. Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese soccer player, is the man with the body he would like to have, he said.
His mother, Ana, said she would have preferred that Alonso hold off on weight training until he was older, but the pressure from coaches and peers made compromise impossible. "It's pushed on them — if you're going to play soccer, you have to lift weights," she said.
A majority of girls in the Minnesota study said they, too, had changed eating or exercise habits to build muscle, with 21 percent using protein supplements and nearly 5 percent using steroids.
"The model of feminine beauty is now more toned and fit and sculpted than it was a generation ago," said Marla Eisenberg, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, the lead author of the Pediatrics study. "It's not just being thin. It's being thin and toned." Indeed, visitors to the "Fitspo" Facebook page are greeted by a sinewy model wearing a tank top that reads "Strong is the new skinny."
Paradoxically, the emphasis on weight lifting among adolescents may be depleting the number of contestants in teenage bodybuilding meets, because many children cannot pass a drug test. "You used to get a lot of teenage bodybuilders, but you don't get them as much anymore," said Andrew Bostinto, president of the National Gym Association. "A lot of these kids are juiced, so they're not entering natural shows."
"You get these kids now, they're 5 feet 6 inches, 5 feet 7 inches, weighing 265 pounds with two percent body fat," he said. "Give me a break. You can't put on 30 pounds in a month."
Mr. Abusheikh, who stands 5 feet tall and weighs 125 pounds, said he steered clear of steroids and would prefer not to use supplements. But because of his small stature, he needed the extra bulk to compete in his school's bodybuilding contest. "I'm mostly trying to get into engineering," he said, "but if something gets in the way I figure I can always be a personal trainer."


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At The Plate – The Cubs came awfully close to sweeping this double after two comebacks but in the end had to settle for a split. Logan Watkins was 1-for-4 with a triple, a walk, an RBI, and a run scored. Josh Vitters had a solid first game and a big second game going 3-for-5, he might be making the case to move ahead of Stewart on the organizational depth chart. Brian Bogusevic just hits, he was 2-for-4 with a walk and an RBI, that raises his average to .418 on the season.
On The Mound – Brooks Raley was really good for Iowa going five innings giving up two runs on six hits while striking out four. Casey Coleman worked a scoreless inning out of the pen giving up one hit while striking out one. Yoanner Negrin was also solid, he went 1.1 scoreless innings giving up one hit while walking one and striking out three. Hisanori Takahashi went 1.2 innings giving up one run on one hit while striking out one. Cory Wade suffered the loss in this one as he went one inning giving up one run on two hits while walking one and striking out two.
At The Plate – The Cubs were locked in a battle into the fourth inning, that's when they broke it open with three runs en route to a 5-2 win. Josh Vitters, who just returned to the team a couple of days ago was 2-for-4 with a home run, two RBI's and two runs scored. Brian Bogusevic continues to hit, he was 2-for-2 with two double, a walk, and a run scored, he's now hitting .414 on the season. J.C. Boscan was 1-for-2 with two RBI's, and a run scored in the win.
On The Mound – Guillermo Moscoso got the start in game one and was solid, but couldn't make it to the fifth inning to get a win. Moscoso went four innings giving up two runs on four hits while walking three and striking out three. Esmailin Caridad, Kyuji Fujikawa, and Blake Parker all worked scoreless innings out of the pen. Fujikawa made his first game appearance since being put on the DL with a forearm issue. Blake Parker earned his third save of the year.
At The Plate – For the second straight game the Smokies had no answer for Braves pitching as they were shut out again in a 6-0 loss. The Smokies aren't just having trouble scoring, they aren't getting any hits either. The Smokies only had five hits in this one, all singles. Matt Szczur was 1-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base, his ninth of the season.
On The Mound – Kyle Hendricks didn't get any help from his defense, as he worked five innings giving up five runs, two earned, on nine hits while striking out five. Marcus Hatley, and Zach Rosscup each worked scoreless innings out of the bullpen, both guys have been outstanding all year long. Trey McNutt worked an inning giving up one runs on three hits.
At The Plate – Pitching at it's finest in this one as the D-Cubs and Mets remained scoreless into the bottom of the ninth, that's when the Mets pushed across a run for a 1-0 win. The D-Cubs could only manage three hits all day in this one, they did draw four walks but were 0-for-5 with runners in scoring position. John Andreoli, Dustin Geiger, and Ben Carhart were the only D-Cubs to record a hit, all singles.
On The Mound – Yeiper Castillo was brilliant once again, but unfortunately didn't factor into the decision. Castillo went six scoreless innings giving up two hits while walking one and striking out seven. Hunter Cervenka was just as good out of the pen as he worked two scoreless innings. Luis Liria took the loss in this one, he was very Marmol like, he worked two-thirds of an inning giving up one run on one hit while walking three.
At The Plate – The Cougars are on a roll, today's win marks the sixth straight victory for Kane County and brought their record back above .500 on the season. Gioskar Amaya was 2-for-4 with a double, and a run scored in the win. Dan Vogelbach was 1-for-2 with two walks, a double and an RBI. Oliver Zapata was 2-for-3 with an RBI, he's now hitting .280 on the season. Seven different players had at least one hit for the Cougars, and they were 3-for-7 with runners in scoring position.
On The Mound – Michael Heesch was outstanding going 7.1 scoreless innings giving up four hits while striking out five to earn his second win of the season. Nathan Dorris has been great all year, and was again today, he worked 1.2 scoreless innings giving up one hit to earn his second save of the season.
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Tone Loc collapses on stage at Bridge Bash
Des Moines Register
- Rapper Tone Loc was performing at Bridge Bash
- The seriousness of the incident was not immediately apparent
- Loc has had health issues during performances before
Rapper Tone Loc collapsed on stage at a downtown Des Moines performance late Saturday, abruptly ending the show, attendees said.
The seriousness of the incident was not immediately apparent. It happened at the Bridge Bash, being held at the Court Avenue bridge over the Des Moines River.
Three Des Moines Register employees said Tone Loc finished a song, then went to the ground. People attended to him for about five minutes. Fans were asked to leave and the show was shut down.
Loc has had health issues during performances before: The celebrity news website TMZ.com has reported on collapses in 2012, 2011 and 2009 in Texas, Georgia and Florida. In two cases he was hospitalized.


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Valve: "Steam Dev Days" conference announced, will not invite press
Valve has announced 'Steam Dev Days', a two-day developer conference in Seattle this January. It aims to get creators together to share their collective knowledge and for talent to share their projects. It's an industry-only event.
To be fair, the last thing developers need when trying to 'get shit done' is a bunch of us annoying writer-types tugging at their arms for an interview, so this makes sense.
The Steam Dev Days page is open now, and explains that the event will include roundtable discussions, and touch on industry topics like VR, user-generated content, Linux development and more.Attendees will also get a chance to test SteamOS, Steam machine prototypes and the Steam controller. Lucky sods.
It all takes place between January 15-16, 2014 in Valve's home of Seattle.
What do you think?
Meanwhile, you can check out Steam machine prototype specs here. Would you get one?
Via AusGamers.


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Slowly add the flour and mix well. If dough is too crumbly add a few teaspoons of milk until it is well mixed, but not too wet.
Shape into 1-inch balls and place 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. With thumb or spoon, make indentation in the center of the cookie.
Bake at 350° for about 10-15 minutes or until the edges are lightly browned. Immediately remove from sheet and cool.
For filling, combine powdered sugar, cream cheese, milk and mint extract together.
When cookies are cooled, fill with filling mixture and top with crushed peppermint candies.


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|ADR target bands
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|Identify and use big candles.
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|Filter gaps out of charts.
|Displaced moving average
|Shift the moving average forward or backward.
|Fractal channel
|Visualize support and resistance lines.
|Hikkake pattern – Daniel Chesler
|Identify market reversal points.
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|Discover when an instrument is most volatile.
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|Identify outside bars and all the subsequent inside bars.
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|Identify market reversal points on a day chart.
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|Range bars viewer – Helmut Schmidt
|See where the next range bar will appear.
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|Remove time from your charts.
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|See when volatility explodes.
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|Discover these channels used by several well-known traders.
|Elliot oscillator – Linda Raschke
|See when new highs/lows in momentum and price coincide.
|Choose between two different ways to visualize Fibonacci levels.
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|Convert the Heikin Ashi candles into a histogram.
|See short term trading signals.
|Laguerre RSI – John F. Ehlers
|Filter the popular RSI and increase its precision.
|MACD Histogram
|Use the histogram to spot imminent MACD crossovers.
|Proxy index – Larry Williams
|Identify trend reversal zones.
|Rainbow – Lars Gottwik
|Highlight trend changes.
|Rainbow GMMA – Daryl Guppy
|Visualise the short and the long term trends.
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|Convert the classic stochastics into an oscillator with a signal line.
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|Rely on momentum to follow the trend.
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I have owned many cars since, more expensive so called quality cars and none have been as reliable. So a few months ago purely for nostalgic reasons I went searching for another Favorit Estate and found one which has slumbered for twenty three years. The car had only done 450 miles from new.
Although it came to me with a new MOT and serviced I have gone from front to back checking it over and improving it. I removed the slight surface rust from the suspension and wish bones and repainted them, rebuilt the brakes and the servo was overhauled as that was not working. The antifreeze was drained although new, and 50/50 mix of "frostock" replenished along with heater matrix seals, the sun roof seal was removed, cleaned and replaced. I have now run the car in and it is now driving lovely having loosened off both in engine, gearbox and steering. It is now showing 1,035 miles and is booked in for its first service and stamp in the service book.
Jobs to do are refurbish the alloy wheels and change the 23 year old Goodyear Grand Prix S tyres, although I had them inspected and they show no signs of cracks or flattening which means the car was stored on axel stands with the wheels in the air or removed. Restore the door mirror mounts - satin black as well as the rear door window runners and clear waxoil the car. The Skoda still smells like a new car inside and I smile every time I sit in it, as it transports me back to when my kids would argue in the back , my wife had shoulder pads in her jackets and my mobile phone was the size of a small house.
The built in torch does not work (did they ever) and the gas strut which holds up the glove box door makes me smile such a bonkers design. I love the sharp lines of the early Favorit as opposed to the softer Felicia and the early Favorit dash screams look comrades we are getting down with the kids, push buttons and everything. Thin A posts and lots of glass means the cabin is nice and light with an excellent view of the road, no air bags, no satnav, no distractions whilst driving, five button's to push and a Phillips AM FM cassette radio. " it's a girl my lord in a flat bed ford slowing down to take a look at me"


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Andrews Hall
The three oldest residence halls were built between 1954 and 1964. Ritter and Fowler were renovated in 2000. Andrews was renovated during the summer of 2001. Each hall contains a kitchenette and laundry facility. Every hall has a community area with a television. The student rooms are essentially identical. Each room contains approximately 144 square feet of living area. The rooms are furnished with two twin beds, dressers and desks. Each room has window coverings, a telephone jack and is wired for high speed Internet access and cable.


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When we restrict to the torsion-free part of the cohomology of a manifold, the intersection pairing is nondegenerate. In dimension 2n, this gives a bilinear form on the free part of Hn (symmetric if n is even, skew-symmetric of n is odd). Supposedly, this classifies simply-connected 4-manifolds pretty well; more precisely, the map from homeomorphism classes of manifolds is at most 2-to-1, and whenever a bilinear form has two preimages, at least one of them isn't smooth.
Broadly, I'm wondering what else is known about this pairing. (Of course, if anything I've said so far is wrong, please correct me!) For example, can we obtain the bilinear form associated to a connected-sum (or a product, or whatever other natural ways we can get manifolds) in some nice way? It seems like in the connected-sum case, Mayer-Vietoris should tell us something -- I'd imagine the isomorphism it gives (when n>1) between Hn(connected-sum)=Hn(M1)+H(M2) is probably natural, but I don't know if we can tell anything about the cohomology ring structure from it. As for the product of manifolds, I'm pretty sure that the Kunneth formula gives an isomorphism of algebras, so that should take care of it unless I'm missing something... Also, is this at all related to the Kirby-Siebemann invariant? (All I really know is that it's related to smoothness/smoothability, but perhaps, for example, we can somehow read off the possible values of the K-S invariant from the bilinear form?)


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WASHINGTON — Fast-growing weeds have evolved over a few generations to adapt to climate change, which could signal the start of an "evolution explosion" in response to global warming, scientists reported Monday.
This means that the weeds will likely keep up with any attempts to develop crops that can adapt to global warming, said Arthur Weis, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California at Irvine.
But some long-lived species — like the venerated California redwood tree, with a lifespan of hundreds of years — will not have the capacity to adapt so quickly, because their life cycles are so long, Weis said in a telephone interview.
The quick-growing weedy plant known as field mustard showed the ability to change reproductive patterns over a period of just seven years, Weis said.
"If you take a climate shift, such as we've had here in southern California, in a very few number of generations you can get a change in ecologically important traits that can allow these fast-growing weedy species to hang on and actually do well despite the change in environments," he said.
Two breeds of mustard seeds
Weis and his colleagues cultivated two sets of mustard seeds in a greenhouse: one set collected in 1997, just before a five-year drought, and a second set collected in 2004, after the drought ended.
The plants were divided into three groups, with each getting different amounts of water, ranging from drought-dry to soggy. In every case, the post-drought generation of plants flowered earlier, meaning the plants could produce seeds before the soil dried out. Late-bloomers would wither before any seeds were produced in a drought year.
How fast a change is this, on the evolutionary timetable? Weis calculated that this represents a 16 percent acceleration of the mustard plants' life-cycle over seven generations.
"That's a pretty big change in age of maturation," he said.
Asked to hypothetically compare this to evolutionary changes in people, Weis offered what he termed a very crude analogy: If humans evolved at the same rate as the mustard plants in the experiment, the average onset of the age of reproduction in humans would slip from 16 years to 13½ in seven generations.
Project Baseline
Weis is spearheading a project to collect, dry and freeze seeds from around North America so they can be studied 50 years from now. He figures that global warming will prompt lots of evolutionary changes and scientists will want to have evidence of plants before the changes occurred. The effort is called Project Baseline.
"If global climate change is coming, and it is, we have this huge unplanned experiment in evolutionary biology facing us," Weis said. "Climate change could lead to an evolution explosion. ... This gives scientists an unprecedented opportunity to look at the actual nuts and bolts of evolutionary change."
The idea is for scientists in the mid-21st century to go back to the same locations where plants are being collected and note the differences between the plants from the different time periods.
Research by Weis and his team was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Read here for more McCarthy praise of Poppinga. It's just very interesting the way McCarthy is going about this – as he talks to the reporter, it's almost as though he's trying to justify having such an affinity for Poppinga because he is anticipating criticism for this. As well he should be.
Look, I want to clarify that I don't dislike Brady Poppinga personally. He is a lively interview and an interesting character. And, importantly, if McCarthy stands firm and keeps him as the starter, I really want him to do well because I just want our team to do well. I'd rather have him do well and make me look like a fool than have him continue to suck so I can be right about him. But I also have seen him struggle on the field for 3+ years as a starter and it's just time someone else gets a chance.


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A return to the dream of the sparkling palaces and sumptuousness of Holy Russia. The scalding-hot scented tea of a samovar blends with the smell of smouldering wood. Precious ashes of frankincense enriched with myrrh illustrate the mystical splendour of churches with golden domes.
Woody, Oriental.
Mysterious, deep, warm.
Smoky tea, frankincense, wood.
During the first use, wait until the wax is evenly consumed, all the way to the edges, before extinguishing the candle.
The wick must always remain centred. If necessary, trim it to about 0.5 cm, straighten it and centre it.
Ideal for perfuming your living room or library.


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Teaching with Technology
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Communicate with Students
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Email your students
Learn how to send an email message to your entire class (BC sign-in required).
Discussion boards and/or chat rooms
Faculty may use Canvas to facilitate classroom discussion boards and chat rooms.
Use the Technology Installed in the Classroom
Classroom equipment
Many classrooms across campus have been equipped with computer and audio/visual projection systems. View profiles of classrooms. Most classrooms have projectors installed. If the classroom you use doesn't have a computer installed, you can bring a laptop and attach it to the projector. Equipment can also be borrowed from MTS (48 hour advance notice required). Borrow Additional Equipment: www.bc.edu/classroomsupport Equipment Reservation: 617-552-4219.
Classroom equipment training
Want to learn how to connect your laptop to the projection system or use the equipment in the media classrooms? Classroom Support Services Staff will meet with faculty or their Teaching Assistant in their classroom and provide instruction. Call 617-552-4219.
Classrooms with computers
Computer classrooms maintained by the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) can be reserved for a class. Call to reserve a computer classroom: 617-552-3826.
Use and Develop Teaching Materials
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Media Technology Services can help you obtain copy written feature films to show in class or to have films shown on one of BC's cable TV channels. View procedures and access the Public Performance Film Request Form.
Course website - Canvas www.bc.edu/canvas
The web-based Learning Management System in use at BC is Canvas. The Center for Teaching Excellence supports the use of Canvas to complement classroom instruction. To get started, contact: firstname.lastname@example.com or 617-552-3826.
ITS Communications & Training offers PowerPoint training. The Interactive Media Lab (IML) provides project specific assistance. On-line classes can be taken using Microsoft eLearning modules (must be using a Windows computer and Internet Explorer).
Design/photographic and other media assistance
Media Technology Services will create graphic materials for faculty and the Interactive Media Lab (IML) offers assistance and instruction on specific projects.
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High Country Baking: Prune armagnac cake
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Move to Europe!" That's what I'd tell any prune that would listen to me. Why? Because prunes are maligned in our country … most people pull a face and respond with a hardy "YUCK" when told they are about to eat a dessert that includes them. But Europeans hold the prune in high esteem. In fact, prunes, coupled with Armagnac, are a beloved combination featured in dishes throughout France and Italy. And, in my opinion, the two harmonize beautifully! Try this cake and you may see the prune in a whole different light.
I know what you're thinking: Even if I can live with the prunes, I doubt I'll try the recipe because of the Armagnac – I've never heard of it. Well, Armagnac is worth getting to know. It's a marvelous French brandy with strong flavor and character and an aroma that is pure heaven … I love the smell that lingers in my kitchen whenever I cook with it. Buy a small bottle (the size sold on planes) if you need convincing. Or, if you don't want to be introduced to it, you could substitute cognac, though it won't duplicate the taste or scent.
The cake is a dichotomy: simple and rustic yet sophisticated and, clearly, adult; it won't appeal to everyone. The texture is dominated by the cornmeal and soft prunes and the taste by the Armagnac. Served warm, it's a heady experience.
An added bonus with this cake: It's easy to make and surprisingly healthy… noticeably lower in fat and calories than most desserts.
Vera Dawson, chef instructor with CMC's Culinary Institute, lives in Summit County, where she bakes almost every day. Her recipes have been tested in her home kitchen and, whenever necessary, altered until they work at our altitude. Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Adjusted for altitudes between 8,000 and 10,000 feet
Make in an eight inch springform pan
1 cup of soft-pitted prunes
1/2 cup of Armagnac or cognac
1/2 cup of cornmeal
1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon of all-purpose flour
1/2 scant teaspoon of baking powder (scant means slightly less than)
A pinch of salt
1/2 cup of granulated sugar, preferably Baker's
2 tablespoons of canola oil
1 tablespoon of unsalted butter, very soft and cut into small pieces
1 large egg
1 large egg white
1/4 cup of plain yogurt, (non fat or low fat is fine)
2 1/2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract
01 Cut each prune into three to four pieces and combine them with the Armagnac in a small bowl. Let them absorb the liquid for about two hours. You can speed up the process by covering the bowl with plastic wrap and microwaving for about half a minute at a medium-high setting. Remove from the microwave, remove the plastic wrap and let cool. Separate the bottom and side of your springform pan and turn the bottom upside down, so the side with a turned-up edge is on the underside of the pan. This makes it easier to cut and remove the cake once it's baked. Reform the pan.
02 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, with a rack in the center position. Spray the pan with a mixture of vegetable oil and flour and, with your hand or a paper towel, spread it evenly.
03 Drain the prunes and save the liquid. Combine the cornmeal, flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl, whisk to combine and set aside. In a larger bowl, whisk the sugar, canola oil and soft butter until they are well blended. Add the egg and egg white and whisk again until mixed. Add the yogurt, vanilla, and one tablespoon of the reserved Armagnac (save the rest) and stir until combined. Fold in the dry ingredients only until they are fully moistened. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan, level and smooth it, and scatter the prunes over the top.
04 Bake until the cake is golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. This takes from 20-25 minutes in my oven. Remove the cake to a cooling rack, cool about 8-10 minutes and remove the side of the springform pan. If you are serving the cake immediately, brush the remainder of the Armagnac over the top. Stop when the cake gets sticky, even if you have some left over. If you are cooling and reheating it before serving, brush half of the Armagnac over the top and save the rest. Let the cake cool completely, then wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for up to two days. When you're ready to serve it, reheat it in a 350-degree oven until it's warm to the touch, brush the top with the rest of the Armagnac (stop if the cake gets sticky, even if you have some left over), and serve.
This is a variation of an Eating Well recipe.
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Sharp trims loss, still sees red ink for full year
Japanese electronics maker Sharp Corp. has reduced its quarterly losses but its outlook remains challenging.
The Osaka-based maker of Aquos TVs left its forecast for the full year ending March unchanged Friday at a 450 billion yen loss ($5 billion) as its flat-panel business for TVs and mobile devices gets hammered by plunging prices and intense competition.
Sharp reported a 36.7 billion yen ($399 million) net loss for the October-December period, a smaller flow of red ink than its 173.6 billion yen loss a year earlier.
It posted an operating profit for period, the first time in five quarters. The operating result excludes one-time gains and losses to provide a clearer picture of financial performance
Quarterly sales rose 15 percent to 678.2 billion yen ($7.4 billion).